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title: So they hung feather-beds between the tapestry and the walls, and th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they hung feather-beds between the tapestry and the walls, and then he could go on knocking his head as long as it was any consolation to him without coming to much harm. Who acts: courtiers, King, head. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependen
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 4

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So they hung feather-beds between the tapestry and the walls, and then he could go on knocking his head as long as it was any consolation to him without coming to much harm.

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**Who acts:** courtiers, King, head · **What happens:** hang, go, knock, be, come · **To what, where:** feather beds, tapestry, head, King, much harm

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, King, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:2:4
# text = So they hung feather-beds between the tapestry and the walls, and then he could go on knocking his head as long as it was any consolation to him without coming to much harm.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	consolation	consolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
32	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | courtiers *= courtier* | feather beds |  | the tapestry and the walls |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme between tapestry=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | could | King |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **knock** | gerund | King *not said here* | King's head | King |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme to he=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | head |  |  |  |  | as any long consolation | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  | much harm |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial\_Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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